[GeoStL] Re: My beefs with micros and other ranting
- From: Dave Keiser <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:50:40 -0500
-
Playgrounds are just fine when kids are with you, but, yeah, a bummer
when I'm not with kids. However, worse than that are cemetary caches.
"Um, sorry about your husband, mam--I just need to look under that
geoflage... I mean rock, next to his gravestone....."
dave
On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Eric & Dayna East wrote:
> -
> I could not agree more! I hate "playground" caches. You get to a park,
> start
> following the GPSr, and you end up in the bushes next to a playground.
> That
> is irresponsible and I really don't think they should be allowed.
>
> Hi Mike.
>
> Not trying to pick a fight but, wasn't speedway one of your caches? It
> was
> very near a playground. Not that I minded, I enjoyed the cache & my
> kids
> loved the playground. We actually enjoy the ones near the playgrounds
> because of the kids.
>
> Eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Griffin" <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:02 AM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: My beefs with micros and other ranting
>
>
>> -
>>>
>>> FINAL RANT
>>> I don't care how far I travel to hunt a cache. If it's in a small
>>> park
>>> and I am hunting by myself and there are kids in the park, I don't
>>> hesitate to move on to the next cache (even though I will log a note
>>> about the situation.) I'm not going to hunt a cache at the sake of
>>> taking on 'deviant' or 'stalker' status.
>>
>> I could not agree more! I hate "playground" caches. You get to a park,
> start
>> following the GPSr, and you end up in the bushes next to a playground.
> That
>> is irresponsible and I really don't think they should be allowed.
>> Imagine
> a
>> parent looking at their kids playing on the jungle jim and in the
>> bushes
> is
>> a grown man snooping around. As a parent, I would freak out. I did
>> one in
>> Indiana and was on the other side of a creek. The playground was 200
>> feet
>> from where I was at but, when I crossed back over the creek, I came
>> within
>> 100 feet of the playground. Three mothers surrounded me and questioned
> what
>> I was doing. I explained it to them and told them it was a Family Fun
>> activity. They were not impressed and wrote down the license plate
>> number
> of
>> the car, even though it was a rental.
>>
>> I posted something in the log about it and emailed the owner. I never
>> got
> a
>> reply back.
>>
>>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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